May 17, 2023 My experience at Vermont Academy (V.A.) has been primarily focused on connection. I wasn’t thriving in my previous academic environment, and connections with my teachers and peers
April 20, 2023 After a two-hour drive due north from the Hartford, CT, area, one exits the highway and winds through the hills to Saxton’s River, VT, the home of
April 19, 2023 Honestly, it’s tough to be a perfectionist writing about perfectionism. Wait, let me rephrase that: a recovering perfectionist writing about perfectionism. See, there it is—correcting myself to
April 12, 2023 Agile classrooms differ from traditional classrooms by focusing on the ownership of learning. In an Agile classroom, students take responsibility for their learning by being given the
April 10, 2023 How can the science of emotion empower us as school leaders? “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
March 22, 2023 Feeling tired and unexcited about work these days? You may be stressed, or you could be suffering from burnout. But how can you tell these apart, and
March 8, 2023 When I was in college, I had a colleague who was several years older, widely read, and was ready to provide an authoritative answer to any question
March 6, 2023 Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. —Mahatma Gandhi Shortly after the birth of my daughter, I
This article is Part 2 of Brent’s series, “What Teachers Need.” Part 1 can be found here. December 14, 2022 There is a sculpture called “The Recovery Stroke” at Swan
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